Flora of North America Glossary
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| Term | Synonyms | Category | Limitation | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| continuous 3 | architecture | rachilla, rachis | Not disarticulating at maturity. | |
| contorted 1 | = convolute | aestivation | Imbricate and whorled, each member in turn overlapped by that to one side and overlapping that to the other, the whole tightly rolled and appearing as though twisted. | |
| contorted 2 | = twisted | architecture | plant, axis | Having a helical pattern of relief and/or coloration along its length. |
| contortuplicate 1 | = torsive | aestivation | Plicate and contorted. | |
| contortuplicate 2 | vernation | Folded and twisted. | ||
| contractile | architecture | structure | Diminishing in length, or acquiring the potential energy for a sudden decrease, due to the generation of internal tension during tissue development. | |
| convolute 1 | = contorted | aestivation | Imbricate and whorled, each member in turn overlapped by that to one side and overlapping that to the other, the whole tightly rolled and appearing as though twisted. | |
| convolute 2 | arrangement | cotyledons | Each rolled or folded inward longitudinally, one enveloping the other. | |
| convolute 3 | vernation | Each rolled laterally and wholly surrounded by and/or surrounding the one(s) next adjacent. | ||
| cordate 1 | = heart-shaped | base | laminar structure | Having two equal, more or less rounded, retrorse lobes, one to either side, overlapping or not, the intervening sinus relatively deep. |
| cordate 2 | = heart-shaped | plane shape | Fairly regularly attenuate from a broad, bilobate base to a narrow apex, the lobes large, rounded, retrorse, and intersecting; like the stylized outline of the broad lateral face of a heart. See also obcordate. | |
| cordiform | = heart-shaped | solid shape | Having two rounded basal lobes, broadest near the base and fairly regularly attenuate to an essentially angular apex; like the stylized form of a heart. See also obcordiform. | |
| coriaceous | = leathery | texture | Moderately thick, tough, and very pliable. | |
| corky | = suberous | texture | Firm, relatively light, discontinuous but strongly cohesive, and resilient. | |
| corm | STRUCTURE | A short, thickened, solid, usually subterranean, sometimes fleshy stem base containing stored carbohydrates and serving as a perennating organ. | ||
| cormose | architecture | plant | Growing from corms. | |
| corneous | = horny | texture | Hard, dense, fine-grained or compactly fibrous, and tough; resembling the substance of animal horn. | |
| corniculate | = horned | apex | Bearing one or more cornicula (horns). | |
| corniculum pl. cornicula | = horn | STRUCTURE | A straight or curved, slenderly conic or conoidal protrusion or terminal portion that resembles an animal horn. | |
| corniform | = horn-shaped | solid shape | Straight or curved and slenderly conic or conoidal, like an animal horn. | |
| corolla pl. corollae, corollas | STRUCTURE | Collectively, the petals of a flower, whether distinct or connate; the inner or distal envelope of a differentiated perianth, whether the other envelope (calyx) is actually present or is deemed to be absent due to evolutionary reduction. | ||
| corolla tube 1 | STRUCTURE | A relatively narrow, fully connate portion of a sympetalous (gamopetalous) corolla proximal to a broader portion (limb) that comprises the distinct or connate distal portions of the petals; except in bisexual or staminate disc florets of Asteraceae (Compositae). | ||
| corolla tube 2 | STRUCTURE | The portion of the corolla of a bisexual or staminate disc floret proximal to the level of filament insertion; in Asteraceae (Compositae). | ||
| coronal | insertion | Upon or otherwise directly associated with the corona. | ||
| coronal | position | Upon or otherwise directly associated with the corona. |
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